I really wish we had a Like button for posts, I enjoy this thread so much!

Possible gross out is coming... We decided to keep our harvested carrots fresh by putting them downstairs in a plastic tub of damp peat moss. Did it work? I don't know, we totally forgot about them for two years. This spring I may open that tub... Or just toss it.

I really wish we had a Like button for posts, I enjoy this thread so much!

Possible gross out is coming... We decided to keep our harvested carrots fresh by putting them downstairs in a plastic tub of damp peat moss. Did it work? I don't know, we totally forgot about them for two years. This spring I may open that tub... Or just toss it.

Oh, please open it. And let us know!

Only do it outside so it doesn't stink up the entire house. But morbid minds want to know!

I really wish we had a Like button for posts, I enjoy this thread so much!

Possible gross out is coming... We decided to keep our harvested carrots fresh by putting them downstairs in a plastic tub of damp peat moss. Did it work? I don't know, we totally forgot about them for two years. This spring I may open that tub... Or just toss it.

Oh, please open it. And let us know!

Only do it outside so it doesn't stink up the entire house. But morbid minds want to know!

Add me to the list of people who Must Know! Also, if it's really ewwy-gooey, please take a picture.

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Some people lift weights. I lift measures. It's a far more esoteric workout. - (Quoted from a personal friend)

I've been tasting & feeling the "contents" of a crypt in my tonsils for the last few days. Last night I woke up with a pea size lump of something that I was glad it was too dark to see sitting in my mouth.

I really wish we had a Like button for posts, I enjoy this thread so much!

Possible gross out is coming... We decided to keep our harvested carrots fresh by putting them downstairs in a plastic tub of damp peat moss. Did it work? I don't know, we totally forgot about them for two years. This spring I may open that tub... Or just toss it.

I really wish we had a Like button for posts, I enjoy this thread so much!

Possible gross out is coming... We decided to keep our harvested carrots fresh by putting them downstairs in a plastic tub of damp peat moss. Did it work? I don't know, we totally forgot about them for two years. This spring I may open that tub... Or just toss it.

I really wish we had a Like button for posts, I enjoy this thread so much!

Possible gross out is coming... We decided to keep our harvested carrots fresh by putting them downstairs in a plastic tub of damp peat moss. Did it work? I don't know, we totally forgot about them for two years. This spring I may open that tub... Or just toss it.

I really wish we had a Like button for posts, I enjoy this thread so much!

Possible gross out is coming... We decided to keep our harvested carrots fresh by putting them downstairs in a plastic tub of damp peat moss. Did it work? I don't know, we totally forgot about them for two years. This spring I may open that tub... Or just toss it.

I double-dog dare you.

(sorry, I've gotta do this.....)

I triple-dog dare you!

Readingchick created a slight breach of etiquette by skipping the triple dare and going right for the throat!

A couple of years ago my very generous farmer neighbor invited me to take all the winter squash I wanted since market season was done and the rest were destined for his cows. So I purchased a BIG plastic tub, the sort you fill with ice and canned/bottle beverages....has rope handles. I carefully put the squash in with newspaper between the layers so no squash were touching lest they rot prematurely. Carried the whole heaping arrangement into my cool dry basement.

And promptly forgot it was there for a year. My heaping tub o'squash had "reduced" to about 3 inches of slime and dissolving newspaper. The smell was horrific! Rot with notes of sulfer and sewer. And I swear it was twitching and writhing like something was swimming around....something BIG.

I hauled it out while screeching at DH to open doors and get out of my way....still nearly tripped over him as he tried to look at it....LOOK ONCE ITS OUTSIDE!!!!!!

I was baking and I thought of this thread. If you really want to be a good cook, you need a high tolerance for squick. Tonight we're having burgers, which, as always, means me using ground beef like Play-Doh.

A couple of years ago my very generous farmer neighbor invited me to take all the winter squash I wanted since market season was done and the rest were destined for his cows. So I purchased a BIG plastic tub, the sort you fill with ice and canned/bottle beverages....has rope handles. I carefully put the squash in with newspaper between the layers so no squash were touching lest they rot prematurely. Carried the whole heaping arrangement into my cool dry basement.

And promptly forgot it was there for a year. My heaping tub o'squash had "reduced" to about 3 inches of slime and dissolving newspaper. The smell was horrific! Rot with notes of sulfer and sewer. And I swear it was twitching and writhing like something was swimming around....something BIG.

I think you just proved the theory of "Spontaneous Generation."

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"The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are."

I was baking and I thought of this thread. If you really want to be a good cook, you need a high tolerance for squick. Tonight we're having burgers, which, as always, means me using ground beef like Play-Doh.

Okay, yeah.... I never thought of it that way before! I am never eating meat again and will subsist on veggies and leafy greens.

I was baking and I thought of this thread. If you really want to be a good cook, you need a high tolerance for squick. Tonight we're having burgers, which, as always, means me using ground beef like Play-Doh.

Okay, yeah.... I never thought of it that way before! I am never eating meat again and will subsist on veggies and leafy greens.

...which comes out of the dirt. You know, where the bugs and the worms live. And as for fertilizer, it's shhhhhsurely going to help the plants grow!